stretchy (strechi)

[ A workman with a true eye can often counteract stretchy stock. Harper's Mag ., LXX. 282. 2. Inclined to stretch one's self: a consequence of fatigue or sleepine . [Colloq. in both uses.] But in the night the pup would get stretchy and brace hinh an coughing unting complacently the while. S. L. Clemens, stretta (stret'tä), n.; pl. strette (-te). [It., fem. of stretto, drawn tight: see strait, strict.] Same as stretto. stretto (stretto), n.; pl. stretti (-ti). [It., 5989 strew (strö or strō), v.; pret. strewed, pp. strewed or strewn, ppr. strewing. [Also archaically strow, formerly or dial. also straw; strict = = striate by reason of minute folds. Pp. stratus ), scatter (see stratum ), = Gr. στορεννύναι, στρωννύναι, strew, scatter, = Skt. star, scatter. The relation of the Teut. to the va riant L. and Gr. roots is not wholly clear. Hence ult. straw1, n. The three pronunciations strö, strō, strå are due to the instability of the AS. vowel or diphthong before w, and its wavering in ME.] I. trans. 1. To scatter; spread loosely: said of dry, loose, separable things: as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on the floor; to strew flowers over a grave. I bad hem strowe floures on my bed. Chaucer, Good Women (1st version), 1. 101. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed [spread, R. V.] them in the way. Mat. xxi. 8. 2. To cover in spots and patches here and there, as if by sprinkling or casting loosely about. And they made soc he martire that all the feilde was strowed full of deed men and horse. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 294. Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers. Shak., L. L. L., iv. 3. 380. 3. To spread abroad; give currency to. She may strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds. Shak ., Hamlet, iv. 5. 14. strewing (ströʻing or strō'ing), n. [Verbal n. of strew , v .] Anything strewed, or suitable to be strewed (for some special purpose). The herbs that have on them the cold dew o' the night Are strewings fitt'st for graves. Shak., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 285. strewment (ströment or stro'ment), n. [ 200 streytet. A Middle English spelling of strait1. stria (strī'ä), n.; pl. str iæ (-e). [F. strie, structure, especially in gla .-5. pl. In elect., the the peculiar peculiar s stratifications of the light observed in vacuum-tubes (Gei ler tubes) upon the pas entom., having rows of punctures set in regular lines very close together, sometimes elongated or running into one another. striate-sulcate (str i'at-sul" kāt), a. In bot., striate with minute furrows. striation (str i-a's hon), n. [